HKEx Monthly Market Highlights

Highlights

- Securities Market

A total of $150,537 million was raised by initial public offerings, or IPOs, for the first eight months of 2010, an increase of 435 per cent when compared with $28,152 million for the same period last year.
There were 47 newly listed companies in the first eight months of 2010, an increase of 88 per cent when compared with 25 in the same period last year.
The average daily turnover for the first eight months of 2010 was $61,760 million, an increase of 1 per cent when compared with $61,313 million for the same period last year.

- Derivatives Market

The average daily turnover of futures and options for the first eight months of 2010 was 428,867 contracts, an increase of 5 per cent when compared with 406,706 contracts for the same period last year.
The average daily turnover of equity index options for the first eight months of 2010 was 42,848 contracts, an increase of 53 per cent when compared with 27,926 contracts for the same period last year.

Listed Securities (Main Board and GEM)
Month-end figures

	Aug 2010	Aug 2009	End 2009
No. of listed companies	1,356	1,280	1,319
Total market capitalisation ($Bil.)	17,924	15,079	17,874
No. of newly listed companies *	5	2	73
No. of listed securities	6,815	6,480	6,616
No. of equity warrants	27	28	26
No. of derivatives warrants	4,191	3,070	3,367
No. of CBBC	1,006	1,889	1,692
No. of unit trusts	75	46	52
No. of debt securities	157	164	157

* Includes the number of transfers of listing from GEM to Main Board

Securities Market Turnover (Main Board and GEM)

	Aug 2010	Jul 2010	% Change
Monthly turnover ($Mil.)	1,279,574	1,125,344	14%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	58,162	53,588	9%
No. of trading days	22	21	-

Turnover by Type of Securities (Main Board and GEM)

( ) % of market total

Mainland Enterprises (Main Board and GEM)
Month-end figures

	Aug 2010	Aug 2009	End 2009
No. of H shares	158	151	156
No. of Red chips Stocks	97	96	97
No. of NHMPE	293	231	271
Market capitalisation (% of market total)	58.0%	57.7%	58.4%
Turnover value (% of equity turnover)	67.1%	71.2%	71.6%

NHMPE = Non-H Share Mainland Private Enterprises

Index Performance
Month-end figures

	Aug 2010	% Change over 1 Month	% Change over 12 Months
S&P/HKEx LargeCap Index	24084.86	-2.2%	3.6%
S&P/HKEx GEM Index	744.37	-5.2%	22.2%
Hang Seng Index	20536.49	-2.4%	4.1%
Hang Seng China Enterprises Index#	11402.90	-4.2%	1.1%
Hang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index*	3990.47	-0.7%	3.8%

# - tracks H shares
* - tracks Red chips

Derivatives Market Turnover

	Average Daily Volume (Contracts)
	Aug 2010	Jul 2010	% Change
Total Futures	163,329	157,741	3.5%
Hang Seng Index Futures	79,678	76,019	4.8%
Mini Hang Seng Index Futures	32,769	30,938	5.9%
H-shares Index Futures	46,551	46,804	-0.5%
Mini H-shares Index Futures	3,453	3,546	-2.6%
Stock Futures	857	418	105.0%
3-Month HIBOR Futures	3	1	200.0%
1-Month HIBOR Futures	0	0	-
3-Year Exchange Fund Note Futures	0	0	-
Gold Futures	19	14	35.7%
Total Options	258,049	219,718	17.4%
Hang Seng Index Options	30,229	29,330	3.1%
Mini Hang Seng Index Options	1,815	1,824	-0.5%
Flexible Hang Seng Index Options ¹	0	271	-100.0%
H-shares Index Options	8,999	9,336	-3.6%
Flexible H-shares Index Options ²	70	0	-
Stock Options	216,936	178,957	21.2%
Total Futures and Options	421,378	377,459	11.6%

¹Trading in Flexible Hang Seng Index Options commenced on 08 Feb 2010
² Trading in Flexible H-shares Index Options commenced on 08 Feb 2010

Clearing and Settlement

CCASS Statistics (securities market)	Aug 2010	Jul 2010	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	666,729	627,584	6.24%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	72,285	69,369	4.20%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	479	426	12.44%
Average daily settlement efficiency of CNS stock positions on due day (T+2)	99.91	99.91	N/A
Shares deposited in the CCASS depository – % of total issued shares – % of the total market capitalisation	71.06%49.22%	70.94%49.30%	N/A N/A
DCASS Statistics (derivatives market)	Aug 2010	Jul 2010	% Change
Month-end Open Interest (contracts)
– Equity Index Futures	192,572	187,134	2.9%
– Stock Futures	7,555	6,393	18.2%
– Interest Rates Futures	200	178	12.4%
– Gold Futures	151	163	-7.4%
– Equity Index Options	427,327	378,643	12.9%
– Stock Options	5,866,065	5,353,770	9.6%

Year-to-date Statistics

Securities Market	Aug 2010 YTD	Aug 2009 YTD	% Change
No. of newly listed companies #	47	25	88%
Average daily turnover by value ($Mil.)	61,760	61,313	1%
Average share traded per trading day (Mil. Shares)	127,721	96,783	32%
Average no. of trades per trading day	730,763	703,274	4%
Fund raised by IPOs ($Mil.)	150,537	28,152	435%
Total funds raised (including IPOs) ($Mil.)*	304,572	319,621	-5%
Derivatives Market	Aug 2010 YTD	Aug 2009 YTD	% Change
*Average daily volume (contracts)*
– Equity Index Futures	169,938	183,806	-7.5%
– Stock Futures	609	1,237	-50.8%
– Interest Rates Futures	4	15	-73.3%
– Gold Futures	20	22	-9.1%
– Equity Index Options	42,848	27,926	53.4%
– Stock Options	215,449	193,701	11.2%
Clearing & Settlement	Aug 2010 YTD	Aug 2009 YTD	% Change
Average daily number of exchange trades handled by CCASS	730,740	703,267	3.91%
Average daily number of settlement instructions (SIs) settled by CCASS	75,274	67,090	12.20%
Average daily number of investor SIs (ISIs) settled by CCASS	519	538	-3.53%

# Includes the number of transfers of listing from GEM to Main Board
* Provisional figures only

Historical Records
up to 31 August 2010

Top 10 Hang Seng Index Closes

Top 10 Daily Market Turnover
(Main Board and GEM)

Top 10 Market Capitalisation
(Main Board and GEM)

Record High for Top-5 Derivatives Market Products (Based on Contract Volume)

HKEx Monthly Market Highlights - August 2010